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... Honour and Fame ? 56 . * Hornbooks described , 75-78 , 86 . Hornbook of Jacobite Toasts , 18 . Hoyle Family notes , 31 , 40 , 41 . Hume , Joseph , early career , 47 . Immaculate Conception , 64 . Infant Sleeping , verses on , 100 ...
... Honour and Fame ? 56 . * Hornbooks described , 75-78 , 86 . Hornbook of Jacobite Toasts , 18 . Hoyle Family notes , 31 , 40 , 41 . Hume , Joseph , early career , 47 . Immaculate Conception , 64 . Infant Sleeping , verses on , 100 ...
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... Honour ? 8 ; replies , 14 . Macdonald , Flora , 47 . Madron Doom Well , 93 . Papal sovereignty , 32 . Paper , new material for , 36 . Perjured Laird's Doom , 27 . Phoenician Paleography , 2 . Pindar , see Wolcot . Polish Names , 23 , 32 ...
... Honour ? 8 ; replies , 14 . Macdonald , Flora , 47 . Madron Doom Well , 93 . Papal sovereignty , 32 . Paper , new material for , 36 . Perjured Laird's Doom , 27 . Phoenician Paleography , 2 . Pindar , see Wolcot . Polish Names , 23 , 32 ...
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... honour on the name of the Historian whose celebrity they usurped to emblazon a notoriety which they have but faintly attempted to maintain . Such a work would have resulted in establishing an eternal national mo- nument , and created a ...
... honour on the name of the Historian whose celebrity they usurped to emblazon a notoriety which they have but faintly attempted to maintain . Such a work would have resulted in establishing an eternal national mo- nument , and created a ...
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... Honour give unto our noble King , So with a blessing let us raise this ring . Hark how the chirping treble sings most clear , And covering Tom comes rowling in the rear ; And now the bells are up , come let us see , What laws are best ...
... Honour give unto our noble King , So with a blessing let us raise this ring . Hark how the chirping treble sings most clear , And covering Tom comes rowling in the rear ; And now the bells are up , come let us see , What laws are best ...
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... HONOUR . - Mrs . Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " gives the following as a wise saying of Landor's : - primary in those who love least ; he who is inspired by it Love is a secondary passion in those who love most , a in the ...
... HONOUR . - Mrs . Jameson , in her " Ethical Fragments , " gives the following as a wise saying of Landor's : - primary in those who love least ; he who is inspired by it Love is a secondary passion in those who love most , a in the ...
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Page 49 - Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 16 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 73 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour ; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Page 16 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 54 - STRAHAN, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 78 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
Page 72 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 45 - Inveni portum. Spes et Fortuna valete. Sat me lusistis: ludite nunc alios.
Page 40 - Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, in Commemoration of Handel, in 1784, was published in quarto, in the following year, in aid of the Musical Fund.
Page 73 - ... thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. BUT now we see not YET all things put under him. But we see JESUS, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour.